Motivational Quotes

Death

How gladly would I meet mortality, my sentence, and be earth in sensible! how glad would lay me down, as in my mother's lap! There I should rest, and sleep secure.

- Milton, John

Best Quotes about Death

Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all.

Butler, Samuel

I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine. It takes place in an impalpable grayness, with nothing underfoot, with nothing around, without spectators, without clamor, without glory, without the great desire of victory, without the great fear of defeat.

Conrad, Joseph

Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.

Milton, John

Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.

Aurelius, Marcus

I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.

Montesquieu, Charles De

Along with the lazy man... the dying man is the immoral man: the former, a subject that does not work; the latter, an object that no longer even makes itself available to be worked on by others.

Certeau, Michel De

Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.

Eliot, George

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All that tread, the globe are but a handful to the tribes, that slumber in its bosom.

Bryant, William C.

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Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright.

Ellis, Alice Thomas

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Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

Camus, Albert

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I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.

Bacon, Francis

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'Tis all a Checker-board of Nights and days where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays: Hither and thither moves, and mates and slays, and one by one back in the Closet lays.

Khayyam, Omar

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Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death.

Picabia, Francis

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There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.

Butler, Samuel

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I stay a little longer, as one stays, to cover up the embers that still burn.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Death cancels everything but truth; and strips a man of everything but genius and virtue. It is a sort of natural canonization. It makes the meanest of us sacred --it installs the poet in his immortality, and lifts him to the skies. Death is the greatest assayer of the sterling ore of talent. At his touch the dropsy particles fall off, the irritable, the personal, the gross, and mingle with the dust --the finer and more ethereal part mounts with winged spirit to watch over our latest memory, and protect our bones from insult. We consign the least worthy qualities to oblivion, and cherish the nobler and imperishable nature with double pride and fondness.

Hazlitt, William

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I am not dying, not anymore than any of us are at any moment. We run, hopefully as fast as we can, and then everyone must stop. We can only choose how we handle the race.

Hugh Elliott

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We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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Dying is something we human beings do continuously, not just at the end of our physical lives on this earth.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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When I have fears that I may cease to be, Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain.

Keats, John

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A considerable percentage of the people we meet on the street are people who are empty inside, that is, they are actually already dead. It is fortunate for us that we do not see and do not know it. If we knew what a number of people are actually dead and what a number of these dead people govern our lives, we should go mad with horror.

Gurdjieff, George

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Death is the great adventure beside which moon landings and space trips pale into insignificance.

Bayly, Joseph

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When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.

Donne, John

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There is no such thing as death. In nature nothing dies. From each sad remnant of decay, some forms of life arise so shall his life be taken away before he knoweth that he hath it.

Mackay, Charles

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The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.

Publilius Syrus

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The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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In the last analysis it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions life puts to us.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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At death we cross from one territory to another, but we'll have no trouble with visas. Our representative is already there, preparing for our arrival. As citizens of heaven, our entrance is incontestable.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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Unquiet souls. In the dark fermentation of earth, in the never idle workshop of nature, in the eternal movement, yea shall find yourselves again.

Arnold, Matthew

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Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

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Our dead brothers still live for us and bid us think of life, not death -- of life to which in their youth they lent the passion and glory of Spring. As I listen, the great chorus of life and joy begins again, and amid the awful orchestra of seen and unseen powers and destinies of good and evil, our trumpets, sound once more a note of daring, hope, and will.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily as lying down.

Allen, Woody

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An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

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Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

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When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do.

Hendrix, Jimi

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Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearances.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Being prepared for loss is never the same as being ready for it.

Randy K. Milholland

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It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

Bacon, Francis

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Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.

Bronte, Emily

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Death can sneak up on you like a silent kitten, surprising you with it's touch and you have a right to act surprised. Other times death stomps in the front door, unwanted and unannounced, and makes it's noisy way to your seat on the sofa.

Hugh Elliott

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There is no death. the stars go down to rise upon some other shore. And bright in Heaven's jeweled crown, they shine for ever more.

Mccreery, John Luckey

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O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? [1 Corinthians 15:55]

Bible

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As we look deeply within, we understand our perfect balance. There is no fear of the cycle of birth, life and death. For when you stand in the present moment, you are timeless.

Rodney Yee

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We need not fear life, because God is the Ruler of all and we need not fear death, because He shares immortality with us.

Landers, Ann

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Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?

Huxley, Aldous

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Death is the enemy. I spent 10 years of my life singlemindedly studying, practicing, fighting hand to hand in close quarters to defeat the enemy, to send him back bloodied and humble and I am not going to roll over and surrender.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist.

Alsop, Steward